A Day Better Than Christmas

Today is my favorite day of the entire school year.

It's a major reason the skewed my decision to become a teacher.

I mean the fact that there is a day devoted to just reading made my options of becoming a park ranger or teacher become a no brainer!

Thank you Theodore Geisel Seuss for making America declare March 2nd "Read Across America Day."

It's really my favorite day as a teacher.

My students received this invite to our class read-a-thon day. The times that I get to design the notes that get sent home, worksheets, and reading logs are stress-relievers.

The day started by the back of our room looking like this. Throw in 25 students in penguin, transformers, and even some footie pajamas and it looked like Mrs. Kussee was hosting a slumber party rather than a literacy read-a-thon.

That's how a classroom should be run.

Right?

Seeing how I was getting excited for a day of reading with my favorite little monsters, I made treats galore to keep my kiddo's mental energy up.

The night before the big event, I got the genius idea to try out a theme party.

Probably not my best planning day, but definitely one of my most creative.

One day I'll have kids and will need to do a cutesy party for them.

That's my excuse for this party, at least.

So here are the details to our "Seuss-tacular" Birthday Party!

Seuss Juice.

Made with equal parts of Sprite and Hawaiian Punch.

Easy Cheesy Lemon Squeezy!

My ever so wonderful husband bagged up goldfish for my monsters to eat while we read, "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish."

And here is my pride and glory of the day!

Cake pops.

Sneetches Cake Pops to be specific.

My first time making these babies and I seriously rocked it (even though I may have stayed up until 11 perfecting them).

I was quite pleased with how they turned out, along with my coworkers, and more importantly, my students loved them.

Here's a little close up. T and I had a lot of fun making these little babies.

And that's what they truly were.

My babies.

The "Sneetches" book is my all time favorite Dr. Seuss book. Which inspired these awesome cake pops.

You can't say they aren't adorable!

We investigated Seuss Juice with our 5 senses... this is one of the better papers by one of my creative writers.

Then we learned how to write a recipe. This is my ever so wonderful promethean board. My monsters copied the same recipe down on their own papers. They were quite proud to be the writers of a recipe.

All in all, it was a complete success! We read a total of an hour and a half today (the other part of the day was spent testing, eating lunch, and doing Dr. Seuss activities). We had a ball together and my students enjoyed reading by themselves and with their peers. I can't wait for March 2nd next year!